February 27, 2025 • 29 mins
Gary and Shannon start the second hour of the show the news of record-high temperatures hitting California before another storm returns by the weekend. Gary and Shannon also discuss the Huntington Par City Hall k corruption probe and Gavin Newsom’s latest podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio an The person who called nine to
one one to report the bodies of Gene Hackman and
his wife, Betsy Arakawa, was very emotional. The audio has
been released of the nine to one one call that
led to police discovering the bodies of Gene Hackman and
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Betsy Arakawa. An unnamed caretaker of the area can be
heard frantically pleading for the dispatcher to send someone to
the house. The call starts with the caretaker, whose name
we don't know, says he believes they've just stumbled across
one or two dead bodies. He seems unsure at the
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time of the call that they need immediate assistance. All
the dispatcher puts up a call for the paramedics. The
caller repeatedly says damn into the phone while sniffling away tears.
He's then asked a series of questions about the patients
as the dispatcher calls them. He doesn't have the answer
to these questions, like ages genders. The collar does say
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he can't see anyone moving inside the house. He's not
in the house with them, but outside looking through a
window with no way of getting in again. Gene Hackman
and his wife found dead yesterday afternoon in their home
in Santa Fe.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Very odd.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
She's found in the bathroom, more decomposed than Gene Hackman is.
She's much younger than he is. She's just in her
early sixties. She's got a bottle of pills splayed out
there with her and the bathroom. There's a dead dog
in the closet in the bathroom, German shepherd. Gene Hackman's
in another area of the house. He appears to have
fallen sunglasses off his head. The family came out right
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away and said that it was carbon monoxide poisoning. But
the firefighters, the carbon monoxide company or the gas company,
i should say, and the police officers all say there's
no evidence of that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
All very weird.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
He was interviewed this was actually backstage, I believe, at
the Oscars one time, when he was asked to his
career as an actor.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
The thing that's all I ever wanted to do. So
few people ever get what they really want in life.
It's a make believe world, and as I say, it's
what I wanted to do as a child, and I
have fulfilled a lot of my dreams.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Good for him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The ridge of high pressure is going to bring another
round of well above average temperatures.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Today we will see some winds pick up.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Also look too bad right now, but afternoon highs in
the valleys are expected to be well into the eighties,
possibly near ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it topped out at about eighty five on
my drive home yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Mid eighties or forecast along the coast in La and
Ventura Counties. But this is going to change because big
drop in temperatures is coming. Increased cloud cover we'll see
tomorrow and a series of storms moving through the area
starting Friday night with a chance of rain off and
on through the weekend into next week.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So I'm going to come home for seasonal effective disorder.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, you're going from a place with a regular morning
fog that burns off to display beauty too.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That was beautiful yesterday afternoon. Usually the wind kicks up
here about four o'clock hour, but yesterday it was beautiful,
seventy degrees with the sun, no wind. I'm like, what
the heck is this?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thank you God? Are you getting out and doing anything
or are you just sticking around? It's a touch and go.
Every day is different.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know, they are talking about record high temperatures in
southern California that will happen, and these don't sound incredible.
Palmdale at eighty is nothing. I mean, that doesn't seem
very warm at all as a matter of fact, because
Palmdale gets up to one hundred and teens regularly in
the summer. Santa Barbara, though, broke its regular record by
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two degrees. Santa Barbara hit eighty two degrees yesterday. What
is that like? I don't think I've ever been in
Santa Barbara when it's been above seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And I have.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I've done there in the summer a couple times. In
July it gets to be about eighty. It's so beautiful there.
I love Santa Barbara. I don't get there enough.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And then this, I'm I, what do people think we
have available to us?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Gary, I'm really surprised that you would get stuck in
traffic or anyone really, as far as I know, working
at KFI gets stuck in traffic, especially in the morning,
because don't you have guys have an eye in the
sky and it maybe have like a hotline that eye
in the sky.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I mean, we also have traffic apps and a lot
of people have navigation now in their cars and things
like that.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But sometimes there's only one road in and one road out.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Sometimes it's just a crap shoot. And today I got
the crappy end of the shoot.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So, oh my gosh, do you feel a little bit
Do you feel a little violated by him insinuating that
as a man you wouldn't be able to figure out
your way around a traffic situation, like that's not what
you were born to do.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That I don't think he was saying.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I mean I have I hope that's not what he
was saying, because you know, you pride yourself on getting
around stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, I have what I like to think is a
pretty good sense of direction, even in places where I
haven't spent a lot of time, Like if we go
to Waco to visit my daughter, I have a pretty
good sense of where stuff is and can at least
point us in the right direction. Whereas my wife will
She'll have no clue. She will go the wrong way
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for twelve miles before she realizes that. I hope she's
not listening before she realizes that she's going the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I feel like twelve miles was an exaggeration.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, it's Texas miles, twelve Texas miles, which is more
like one hundred and fifty California mile. It's flatter there,
but I have a pretty good sense of direction. And
now that I.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Still couldn't get your way to work, couldn't figure out
the way to get around that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Jam boy, Now you'm totally kidding. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's like a Tuesday for me? Hey, Keussy, all right,
local politicians are dirty?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh God, this is like that story yesterday about there
were big drugs in the jails in La County. Yeah,
my eyes are being open this week.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Huntington Park City Hall and the homes of current and
former city council members have been searched yesterday as part
of a corruption investigation. LA City Hall not the only one.
I mean, we could really go down the list. I
think it all started with Bell right where we all
started going, what's really going on with those people who
say that they want to do good for the community. Oh,
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they're just trying to enrich themselves. Guess what it's nothing new.
It didn't start with Bell, it won't end with Bell.
It's been going on for a long time and it
will go on as long as.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We have elected officials.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We'll tell you about the latest Huntington Park operation, Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
We'll be talking about this anti aging pill for dogs
that is clear to FDA hurdle. They say that this
means good news for anti aging drugs for humans, but
what do we care about them? Back to the dogs.
They say that this is going to be It's done
by a company named Loyal and they say that they're
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going to launch this pill under an FDA clearance for
animal drugs. It's called conditional approval. What that does is
it allows a company to start selling a treatment that
the agency FDA is said is safe and reasonably expected
to work as they gather additional data to fully prove
effectiveness while it's on the market. They say that this
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is going to be less than about one hundred dollars
a month.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I know a lot of people that would pay a
lot more than that to kell, yeah, keep their animals alive.
They haven't said much about the what's the quality of
life if your dog is already at a certain age.
There are things that come with that, arthritis, cancer, Are
you just prolog and the breeding.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, it depends on the breed and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So well, they said that the dogs have to be
at least ten years old and be at least fourteen pounds.
But yeah, I would assume it just means for relatively
healthy dogs. I don't think you'd want to extend your
your dog's life.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
If it was going through something. Some people the opposite.
Some people do because they put them, they put their own.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Comfort. It's a horrible decision. I've had to make it.
It's not like it's it's an awful decision, but there
are some people who err on the side of well,
I'd be more comfortable if my poopy was with me.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I was just talking to one of my friends and
she had to put down her dog last week, Ellie,
and she said that she was just struggling. There was
no quality of life. She couldn't jump up onto the
couch to get cuddles, like. It was just awful, and
she was, you know, she couldn't walk. It was just
it was awful. It was clearly the end. And she said,
you know that her dog just looked at it. Gave
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her a look and she just she saw that look
and she called the vet and she said, I got
to come in. We got to put her down. I mean,
it's awful.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And I can't imagine when we went through that same
thing a little more than a year ago, the vet.
How many times a day does the vet have to
tell somebody, Hey, this isn't gonna this isn't gonna last,
and your dog is in pain and discomfort. We can
make her comfortable, but it's not good. And I can't imagine,
because there was a time when I thought I wanted
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to be a vet, and I just that would be
the hardest.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I think that would be the hardest part of the job.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Is every day you're going to go in, someone's going
to bring, you know, twelve year old cocker spaniel in
there that's been can't move its back legs or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's like working in the ICU. It sounds good, it
sounds like a challenge, and then you realize all the
death that goes into it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The entry door is a lot bigger than the exit door.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You don't think about these things when you think about
certain jobs. You don't think about what what you're facing emotionally.
Could you imagine putting down dogs like that? Oh my gosh,
I can't even.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well hold on to your skirts, ladies.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The Huntington Park City Hall has been raided by the
La County DA's office.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
They have executed a.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Bunch of search warrants, not just in city Hall, but
at the home of the mayor and nine other locations,
part of a public corruption probe that they're calling Operation
Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The warrants were served at the homes of Mayor Karina Messias,
council member Eddie Martinez, other members Graciela or Tees, Maryland
Santa Bria, the sister of a current council member as well.
The city manager was served with a warrant. Public Works
department is involved as well. There's a lot of police
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tape involved the district attorneys as numerous items have been
seized from every location, public records, financials, computers, tablet, cell phones,
all of that. This investigation apparently began in November of
twenty twenty two, and it revolves around the construction of
a regional aquatic center at Salt Lake Park Dirty Pond,
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Dirty Lake.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The city allocated more than twenty million to the project
has spent about fourteen million. But what about that regional
Aquatic Center? I bet it's beautiful, right, They've spent fourteen
million on it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
A lot of glass, new pools Olympic size, I don't know.
Sounds wonderful. What you can do with fourteen million dollars?
What has been constructed? There nothing?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
A graffiti covered slumping sign that says coming soon.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's it. That's the only thing that's say.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Now, listen, this is the this is the Huntington this
is Huntington Park. This happens all over the place. This
is not the exact right use of the term, but
this is the turpin rule, as awful as it sounds.
And we think, gosh, that can't happen anywhere else, And
then all of a sudden we get another story about
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another group of kids that's been held hostage in their
own home by some ridiculously crazy parents. In circumstances like this,
we think to ourselves, oh, the City of Bell, you
got paid four hundred and eighty thousand dollars for being
the mayor of the City of Bell.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
That doesn't happen very often, And then all of a sudden,
something like this happens once again, and well, it's.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like John and Kenne been saying it forever, and John,
now people don't pay attention, and the politicians take.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Oh yeah, if you're not paying attention, they get to
be these fat pigs that just play around in their
slop and they get to take all of your tax
dollars and do whatever the hell they want with it
because you're not reading those city council minutes. You're not
paying attention. Oh, a new aquatic center for the city
where the kids can go after school.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That sounds great. I'll vote for that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But nobody ever circles back and pays attention to Hey,
whatever happened with that aquatic center? All that money that
was earmarked for that, where's it going to progress? And
then you kind of run the risk of, well, first
of all, you're living your own life. Is time to
be the police of the Huntington Park City Council. You know,
you've got a million things to do on your own.
And then you run the risk of being the person
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who shows up and asks questions when you've got the
power of what seems like the entire city council that's
in on this this criminal behavior. You're going to ask
questions before this board who has all the power in
your city, You're going to be laughed away.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's never going to rise to the level of news.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And in this case, you're talking about, you know, the
thirty thousand square foot, two story, state of the art
aquatic center, millions of dollars, right, fourteen million, something like that,
twenty million. Imagine how much money is available to be
stolen when you're talking billions of dollars at the state
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level with high speed rail. And to your point, I
think this is important because people in two thousand and
eight we voted, unfortunately, we voted to start high speed rail,
and I think there are plenty of people who seventeen
years later think to themselves, Oh, I'm sure they're doing
just fine.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm sure everything's fine.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I voted for it a long time ago because I
like to live in fairytale Land, and I sure hope
they're making progress on fairytale Land.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Maybe it's a delayed frustration with my traffic.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Maybe that's why I think Fairytale Land sounds amazing, And
I probably would ask no questions about Fairytale Land. Tell
me more. Is there a castle on the hill. Does
it have a moat?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Are there horses? Do they are they unicorns or do
they have sparkles?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They have wings like Pegasus?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
They have wings, they're Pegasa's si pegas.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Interesting. Is there a lake near the castle?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
There is a two story Olympic pool, aquatic center. It's
all right there in fairytale Land. Newsome, you haven't heard
enough of him yet. You're going to listen to the
Gavin Newsom podcast. This one is not the one with
Marshawn Lynch. He's launched another one. Although I thought he
was the governor of the state of California and was
relatively busy.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Did you know how dark the fairy Tale of Rumpelstiltskin
really is? Like the original?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Very dark? Is that the one he pricks his finger
on the on the what is it the that's the
watered down version? Oh really?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But I mean the grim fairy tales. Man, when you
get into the first in the first the way they
were intended. Yeah, first incarnations of those, they are dark
and terrifying.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Vatican says that Pope Francis continues to improve, but his
prognosis is guarded. That's the word guarded. I've known people
that have come out of guarded condition. Sure, usually you're
guarded right after surgery, right.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, and I'm not.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And maybe guarded it probably means different things to different
healthcare people. But guarded could just be like, hey, we're
cautiously optimistic. We're not gonna we're not gonna give you
some rosy outlook like oh, he'll be give him a week,
he'll be fine, he'll be playing soccer again or football.
But it's guarded because he's eighty eight and double pneumonia
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is not easy for anyone.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I am not one to stand up for Gavin Newsom.
There's not much about Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That I enjoy.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
At all, really that I can think of now that
I think about it. But this whole backlash against him,
I think is maybe a little bit overkill. Gavin Newsom
is being viciously mocked for launching a podcast, and I'm
reading verbatim here. Two months after Los Angeles was turned
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to ash by wildfires, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
A couple things.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Number One, Los Angeles was not turned to ash by wildfires.
Another thing, Yes, it was very sad for the Palisade.
It's very sad for Altadina, very sad for all of
us to watch this happen and people lose their homes
and where they built their lives and everything. But all
of Los Angeles is not in ashes. Also, it has
been two months, and launching a podcast is not labor intensive.
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It's not like Gavenusom is pouring his life into this
new podcast. It's a very simple, very easy, very low
maintenance thing to do that doesn't require a lot of time.
He can still be paying attention to what's going on
with wildfire recovery. I just think if you're going to
go after Gavenusom, there's a lot of things to go
after this, ain't it Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I want to play for you the promo that he
put out on his Twitter account yesterday pitching the podcast,
and I'll tell you what my problem is with it.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We need to change the conversation.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
And that's why I'm watching a new podcast, and this
is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast.
I'm going to be talking to people directly that I
disagree with, as well as people I look up to.
But more important than anything else, I'll be talking directly
with you the listener, real conversations. What's going on with
the cost of eggs, what are the impacts, real impacts
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to you around tariffs? What power does an executive order
really have? And what's really going on inside of Dotsch. Look,
there's an onslaught of information that we take in, so
let's take it to the sources without the typical political
mumbo jumble. In the first few weeks, we're going to
be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and
architects in the Mega movement. This is Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
This is Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I kept waiting for the pizza boy to take off
all of his clothes with that music. Ma'am, did you
order extra anchovies? You're damn right, I did leave it
right there.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
The problem ever saw that movie?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, No, it's like a late eighties early nineties movie
where he is a piece. It's a boy who services
the board mothers of the suburban town where he dishes
his pizza.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, when I was fifteen, I didn't watch movies like
that where you were nine when you saw that movie.
Probably my problem is that he's talking about these national issues.
I don't have a problem. I generally don't have a
problem with the governor of a state doing a podcast
for the reasons that you talked about. He's got people
to produce it for him and schedule the interviews and
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do all that thing. All he's got to do is
sit down and bang out forty five minutes with whoever
he's going to be talking to. But he's talking about
issues that are very specifically national issues. When it comes
to the Department of Government efficiency or the price of eggs,
these are not things that are specific to California.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
He's been doing this for a year and a half
because he's running for president.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I know, but that's my problem. That's why I have
a problem with him doing this.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
If you wanted to do a podcast that was like, Hey,
I'm the governor of California, here's how we can make
California great again, or here's how we're going to be
able to make sure that everybody in the state of
California has healthcare, or whatever topic he wants to.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Do, as long as it's specific to California.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I'm tired of him running for president but then telling
everybody that he's not running for president.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's very rare that a governor is just going to
be focused on the state's business, right, especially a Gavin
Newsom like governor, and he hasn't spend one second being governor.
He's been running for president ever since. He's been running
for president for a very long time. I like the
idea that he's sitting down and talking to Republicans. I
like that they're opening up the podcast for the kind
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of dialogue that I'm begging.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
For to get more out of. I like that.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I guess it doesn't rub me the wrong way because
he has been running for president for a year and
a half. I got to get past the Gaven Newsom part.
But I am interested to see I mean, I'll listen
to a couple of these because I'm interested to see
how he handles a real conversation. Also, who is he
going to have, Like if he has Tom McClintock on,
for example, I'll listen to that podcast of Gavin Newsom
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and Tom McClintock, hopefully having two very different viewpoints about
California or the country or what have you, and seeing
how that conversation goes. I think there needs to be
more of those conversations.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
What about those points that you just made I think
I totally agree with because I want to I want
to hear those conversations.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Also, it's going to depend on who he has.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
You know, are there people that he thinks are the
head of the MAGA movement or are they people who
are actually legitimately involved in the Trump administration and can
answer the questions specifically about what's going on in there.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Maybe the thing that.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I think he's going to do is not what my
fantasy is of him having staunch Republicans, conservative Republicans from
California who care about California and the country on. He
sees himself still as the resistance movement. He sees himself
as the face of the Trump resistance movement. So he's
going to, I think, try to appease all the people
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who are looking for that Trump resistance daddy. And I
think that that's what you're going to get, more than
intelligent conversation between real players and the Republican Party. And
can we find some common ground or can you explain
the way you're thinking to me, because this is the
way I'm thinking, and maybe if we can come together
and actually speak to each other, we can find some
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sort of understanding.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So you're going to subscribe to this podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
No, I'm not subscribing to anything with Gavin Newsom's name
on it. Please, I'll listen to clips on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That's about as far as my commitment goes.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
All right, up next, we're about a month in now,
the la Unified Annoying cell phone band that we have
championed for years now may actually be working. We are
now on the clock, apparently a few social media influencers.
We're the first to receive the Jeffrey Epstein file from
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Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Conservative political commentators have been spotted at the White House
holding binders that that say on the top of them
the Epstein Files.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Epstein Files Phase one specifically, so those they.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Read the binders declassified. Huh.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But they don't know if it's if this is all
for show, or if the information's trickling out. Bondie said
on Fox News that the documents would include flight logs and.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
A lot of names, but we don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
If those see. I think that if they were names
we hadn't known already, she would have.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Said that, what do you mean she could if there
were surprises? Right? Yeah, And I don't know why there's
like this is a lot much ado about nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Could be, like I said, it could be that your
reference to Rachel Maddow and those tax documents that were
supposed to be so earth shattering they came out to
be a big nothing. So anyway, those videos of these
people walking out of the White House with these binders
have just been making the rounds on social media in
the last few minutes. So maybe we will see something.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Top of the Hour. We're going to get into swamp
watch and among other things.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Keir Starmer, the new British Prime Minister, is visiting President
Trump at the White House today. Tomorrow, Vladimir Lensky, the
President of Ukraine, is expected in DC to sign this
Minerals agreement where the United States gets a share of
all of the rare earth minerals that exist in or
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at least the sales of those rare earth minerals in Ukraine,
in exchange for continued military aid that has been poorn
into that country.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
LA Unified voted back in June to expand the district's
existing cell phone band to include lunch and passing periods,
so basically bell to bell right starting bell to finishing
bell policy took effact last Tuesday, and LA Unified has
reported no major disruptions in the first week. Some schools
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are still waiting on their equipment, the lockers, the pouches,
the other devices used to store phones. The district spent
seven million dollars on all of that. Half of schools,
they say, chose to rely on the honor system as
they await that requiring students to keep their phones turned
off in their backpacks. But it appears to be working
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for when they for the schools that have the stuff
in play in terms of kids, like they mentioned at
Venice High School that kids now report to their six
period class for the first ten minutes of every day.
That's where they stow their phones and the portable medical
metal cases.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's got a.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Clear locking door and then that's where they finish their day.
So that's where they pick up their phones before they
go home.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Some students this is not a surprise, and some students
are upset by this policy. I think it's I think
the number is somewhere around ninety five of teenagers now
carrie smartphones. Fifteen year old freshman at the Sherman Oaks
Center for Enriched studies. Says that before the policy, before
he had to give his phone up in the morning,
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he would use his phone to take pictures of assignments
and when he would finish his work, and he said,
for day to day school life, it's just really really annoying.
Banning our phones just makes us more focused on our
phones and missing our phones. If they want to get
us more focused on our education, they have to make
the education more interesting to us.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
There's two parts of habit that is a real I
want to punch that kid right in the face.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, there's two parts of that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The first one is, hey, Miles, that means you're an addict.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Right, Miles, give it five days. It takes five days
to break a habit.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
That's what they say.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Five days.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
How about five days you don't have your cell phone
in class and see if your dts have worn off?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah? OK.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
There was a study that it keeps floating up in
the different headlines that I see every night getting ready
for the show, and we haven't brought it to the
table yet, but it's there's a study that asked people
to do away with their cell phones for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I mean just gone. Not that you couldn't look at email.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Obviously, you still have computer and things at home, but
you didn't have this constant thing with you on your
pocket or in your purse or on your body twenty
four to seven. And for two weeks ninety two ninety one,
ninety two percent of people said everything about their life
was better. They felt better, they were less stressed, they
weren't worried about stuff. And the best part is we
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we were afraid to give up our phones because we're
afraid we're going to miss something. Someone's trying to call
us and we don't get the message, or someone the
email is an important document and we.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Didn't get it. It does not fall it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
And that's the thing is that we have such a
hard time seeing beyond, you know, looking looking into what
would two weeks feel like if I didn't have my
phone with me. But then when you do it, gosh,
darn it, everything feels great.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You kind of sound like your kid, don't you when
you start making excuses for reasons why you need your phone. Yes, well,
somebody you may need to get a hold of me.
I may need to get a hold of you know,
my brother, or you know, my my boss may be calling.
It's like you find yourself making these excuses for your addiction.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Actually, none of that would none of that is going
to be the end of the world. Oh I have
we have MENSA members that listen to this show.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Did you know that, I would hope so this one specifically,
he was pointing out one of the characteristics that I
said that I've been told, which is that I have
good directional sense. My wife says that about me. And
this was his talk back about about that topic. Oh,
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I'm Gary, I have a good sense of knowing where
I'm at.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I really like that guy. I really like that guy.
I really liked the guy. I'm so good at direct
I totally feel that way.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think I do that in my head several times
a show.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh Gary, I'm good at everything.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Just because you are, you're kind of infuriating a little bit,
just because you market it. Yeah, I mean, if you.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Could just screw up once in a while, it would
help the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
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one one to report the bodies of Gene Hackman and
his wife, Betsy Arakawa, was very emotional. The audio has
been released of the nine to one one call that
led to police discovering the bodies of Gene Hackman and
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Betsy Arakawa. An unnamed caretaker of the area can be
heard frantically pleading for the dispatcher to send someone to
the house. The call starts with the caretaker, whose name
we don't know, says he believes they've just stumbled across
one or two dead bodies. He seems unsure at the
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time of the call that they need immediate assistance. All
the dispatcher puts up a call for the paramedics. The
caller repeatedly says damn into the phone while sniffling away tears.
He's then asked a series of questions about the patients
as the dispatcher calls them. He doesn't have the answer
to these questions, like ages genders. The collar does say
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he can't see anyone moving inside the house. He's not
in the house with them, but outside looking through a
window with no way of getting in again. Gene Hackman
and his wife found dead yesterday afternoon in their home
in Santa Fe.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Very odd.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
She's found in the bathroom, more decomposed than Gene Hackman is.
She's much younger than he is. She's just in her
early sixties. She's got a bottle of pills splayed out
there with her and the bathroom. There's a dead dog
in the closet in the bathroom, German shepherd. Gene Hackman's
in another area of the house. He appears to have
fallen sunglasses off his head. The family came out right
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away and said that it was carbon monoxide poisoning. But
the firefighters, the carbon monoxide company or the gas company,
i should say, and the police officers all say there's
no evidence of that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
All very weird.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
He was interviewed this was actually backstage, I believe, at
the Oscars one time, when he was asked to his
career as an actor.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
The thing that's all I ever wanted to do. So
few people ever get what they really want in life.
It's a make believe world, and as I say, it's
what I wanted to do as a child, and I
have fulfilled a lot of my dreams.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Good for him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The ridge of high pressure is going to bring another
round of well above average temperatures.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Today we will see some winds pick up.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Also look too bad right now, but afternoon highs in
the valleys are expected to be well into the eighties,
possibly near ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it topped out at about eighty five on
my drive home yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Mid eighties or forecast along the coast in La and
Ventura Counties. But this is going to change because big
drop in temperatures is coming. Increased cloud cover we'll see
tomorrow and a series of storms moving through the area
starting Friday night with a chance of rain off and
on through the weekend into next week.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So I'm going to come home for seasonal effective disorder.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, you're going from a place with a regular morning
fog that burns off to display beauty too.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That was beautiful yesterday afternoon. Usually the wind kicks up
here about four o'clock hour, but yesterday it was beautiful,
seventy degrees with the sun, no wind. I'm like, what
the heck is this?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thank you God? Are you getting out and doing anything
or are you just sticking around? It's a touch and go.
Every day is different.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know, they are talking about record high temperatures in
southern California that will happen, and these don't sound incredible.
Palmdale at eighty is nothing. I mean, that doesn't seem
very warm at all as a matter of fact, because
Palmdale gets up to one hundred and teens regularly in
the summer. Santa Barbara, though, broke its regular record by
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two degrees. Santa Barbara hit eighty two degrees yesterday. What
is that like? I don't think I've ever been in
Santa Barbara when it's been above seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And I have.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I've done there in the summer a couple times. In
July it gets to be about eighty. It's so beautiful there.
I love Santa Barbara. I don't get there enough.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And then this, I'm I, what do people think we
have available to us?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Gary, I'm really surprised that you would get stuck in
traffic or anyone really, as far as I know, working
at KFI gets stuck in traffic, especially in the morning,
because don't you have guys have an eye in the
sky and it maybe have like a hotline that eye
in the sky.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I mean, we also have traffic apps and a lot
of people have navigation now in their cars and things
like that.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But sometimes there's only one road in and one road out.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Sometimes it's just a crap shoot. And today I got
the crappy end of the shoot.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So, oh my gosh, do you feel a little bit
Do you feel a little violated by him insinuating that
as a man you wouldn't be able to figure out
your way around a traffic situation, like that's not what
you were born to do.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That I don't think he was saying.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I mean I have I hope that's not what he
was saying, because you know, you pride yourself on getting
around stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, I have what I like to think is a
pretty good sense of direction, even in places where I
haven't spent a lot of time, Like if we go
to Waco to visit my daughter, I have a pretty
good sense of where stuff is and can at least
point us in the right direction. Whereas my wife will
She'll have no clue. She will go the wrong way
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for twelve miles before she realizes that. I hope she's
not listening before she realizes that she's going the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I feel like twelve miles was an exaggeration.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, it's Texas miles, twelve Texas miles, which is more
like one hundred and fifty California mile. It's flatter there,
but I have a pretty good sense of direction. And
now that I.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Still couldn't get your way to work, couldn't figure out
the way to get around that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Jam boy, Now you'm totally kidding. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's like a Tuesday for me? Hey, Keussy, all right,
local politicians are dirty?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh God, this is like that story yesterday about there
were big drugs in the jails in La County. Yeah,
my eyes are being open this week.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Huntington Park City Hall and the homes of current and
former city council members have been searched yesterday as part
of a corruption investigation. LA City Hall not the only one.
I mean, we could really go down the list. I
think it all started with Bell right where we all
started going, what's really going on with those people who
say that they want to do good for the community. Oh,
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they're just trying to enrich themselves. Guess what it's nothing new.
It didn't start with Bell, it won't end with Bell.
It's been going on for a long time and it
will go on as long as.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We have elected officials.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We'll tell you about the latest Huntington Park operation, Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
We'll be talking about this anti aging pill for dogs
that is clear to FDA hurdle. They say that this
means good news for anti aging drugs for humans, but
what do we care about them? Back to the dogs.
They say that this is going to be It's done
by a company named Loyal and they say that they're
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going to launch this pill under an FDA clearance for
animal drugs. It's called conditional approval. What that does is
it allows a company to start selling a treatment that
the agency FDA is said is safe and reasonably expected
to work as they gather additional data to fully prove
effectiveness while it's on the market. They say that this
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is going to be less than about one hundred dollars
a month.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I know a lot of people that would pay a
lot more than that to kell, yeah, keep their animals alive.
They haven't said much about the what's the quality of
life if your dog is already at a certain age.
There are things that come with that, arthritis, cancer, Are
you just prolog and the breeding.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, it depends on the breed and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So well, they said that the dogs have to be
at least ten years old and be at least fourteen pounds.
But yeah, I would assume it just means for relatively
healthy dogs. I don't think you'd want to extend your
your dog's life.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
If it was going through something. Some people the opposite.
Some people do because they put them, they put their own.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Comfort. It's a horrible decision. I've had to make it.
It's not like it's it's an awful decision, but there
are some people who err on the side of well,
I'd be more comfortable if my poopy was with me.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I was just talking to one of my friends and
she had to put down her dog last week, Ellie,
and she said that she was just struggling. There was
no quality of life. She couldn't jump up onto the
couch to get cuddles, like. It was just awful, and
she was, you know, she couldn't walk. It was just
it was awful. It was clearly the end. And she said,
you know that her dog just looked at it. Gave
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her a look and she just she saw that look
and she called the vet and she said, I got
to come in. We got to put her down. I mean,
it's awful.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And I can't imagine when we went through that same
thing a little more than a year ago, the vet.
How many times a day does the vet have to
tell somebody, Hey, this isn't gonna this isn't gonna last,
and your dog is in pain and discomfort. We can
make her comfortable, but it's not good. And I can't imagine,
because there was a time when I thought I wanted
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to be a vet, and I just that would be
the hardest.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I think that would be the hardest part of the job.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Is every day you're going to go in, someone's going
to bring, you know, twelve year old cocker spaniel in
there that's been can't move its back legs or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's like working in the ICU. It sounds good, it
sounds like a challenge, and then you realize all the
death that goes into it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The entry door is a lot bigger than the exit door.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You don't think about these things when you think about
certain jobs. You don't think about what what you're facing emotionally.
Could you imagine putting down dogs like that? Oh my gosh,
I can't even.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well hold on to your skirts, ladies.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The Huntington Park City Hall has been raided by the
La County DA's office.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
They have executed a.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Bunch of search warrants, not just in city Hall, but
at the home of the mayor and nine other locations,
part of a public corruption probe that they're calling Operation
Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The warrants were served at the homes of Mayor Karina Messias,
council member Eddie Martinez, other members Graciela or Tees, Maryland
Santa Bria, the sister of a current council member as well.
The city manager was served with a warrant. Public Works
department is involved as well. There's a lot of police
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tape involved the district attorneys as numerous items have been
seized from every location, public records, financials, computers, tablet, cell phones,
all of that. This investigation apparently began in November of
twenty twenty two, and it revolves around the construction of
a regional aquatic center at Salt Lake Park Dirty Pond,
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Dirty Lake.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The city allocated more than twenty million to the project
has spent about fourteen million. But what about that regional
Aquatic Center? I bet it's beautiful, right, They've spent fourteen
million on it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
A lot of glass, new pools Olympic size, I don't know.
Sounds wonderful. What you can do with fourteen million dollars?
What has been constructed? There nothing?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
A graffiti covered slumping sign that says coming soon.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's it. That's the only thing that's say.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Now, listen, this is the this is the Huntington this
is Huntington Park. This happens all over the place. This
is not the exact right use of the term, but
this is the turpin rule, as awful as it sounds.
And we think, gosh, that can't happen anywhere else, And
then all of a sudden we get another story about
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another group of kids that's been held hostage in their
own home by some ridiculously crazy parents. In circumstances like this,
we think to ourselves, oh, the City of Bell, you
got paid four hundred and eighty thousand dollars for being
the mayor of the City of Bell.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
That doesn't happen very often, And then all of a sudden,
something like this happens once again, and well, it's.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like John and Kenne been saying it forever, and John,
now people don't pay attention, and the politicians take.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Oh yeah, if you're not paying attention, they get to
be these fat pigs that just play around in their
slop and they get to take all of your tax
dollars and do whatever the hell they want with it
because you're not reading those city council minutes. You're not
paying attention. Oh, a new aquatic center for the city
where the kids can go after school.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That sounds great. I'll vote for that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But nobody ever circles back and pays attention to Hey,
whatever happened with that aquatic center? All that money that
was earmarked for that, where's it going to progress? And
then you kind of run the risk of, well, first
of all, you're living your own life. Is time to
be the police of the Huntington Park City Council. You know,
you've got a million things to do on your own.
And then you run the risk of being the person
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who shows up and asks questions when you've got the
power of what seems like the entire city council that's
in on this this criminal behavior. You're going to ask
questions before this board who has all the power in
your city, You're going to be laughed away.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's never going to rise to the level of news.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And in this case, you're talking about, you know, the
thirty thousand square foot, two story, state of the art
aquatic center, millions of dollars, right, fourteen million, something like that,
twenty million. Imagine how much money is available to be
stolen when you're talking billions of dollars at the state
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level with high speed rail. And to your point, I
think this is important because people in two thousand and
eight we voted, unfortunately, we voted to start high speed rail,
and I think there are plenty of people who seventeen
years later think to themselves, Oh, I'm sure they're doing
just fine.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm sure everything's fine.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I voted for it a long time ago because I
like to live in fairytale Land, and I sure hope
they're making progress on fairytale Land.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Maybe it's a delayed frustration with my traffic.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Maybe that's why I think Fairytale Land sounds amazing, And
I probably would ask no questions about Fairytale Land. Tell
me more. Is there a castle on the hill. Does
it have a moat?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Are there horses? Do they are they unicorns or do
they have sparkles?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They have wings like Pegasus?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
They have wings, they're Pegasa's si pegas.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Interesting. Is there a lake near the castle?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
There is a two story Olympic pool, aquatic center. It's
all right there in fairytale Land. Newsome, you haven't heard
enough of him yet. You're going to listen to the
Gavin Newsom podcast. This one is not the one with
Marshawn Lynch. He's launched another one. Although I thought he
was the governor of the state of California and was
relatively busy.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Did you know how dark the fairy Tale of Rumpelstiltskin
really is? Like the original?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Very dark? Is that the one he pricks his finger
on the on the what is it the that's the
watered down version? Oh really?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But I mean the grim fairy tales. Man, when you
get into the first in the first the way they
were intended. Yeah, first incarnations of those, they are dark
and terrifying.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Vatican says that Pope Francis continues to improve, but his
prognosis is guarded. That's the word guarded. I've known people
that have come out of guarded condition. Sure, usually you're
guarded right after surgery, right.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, and I'm not.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And maybe guarded it probably means different things to different
healthcare people. But guarded could just be like, hey, we're
cautiously optimistic. We're not gonna we're not gonna give you
some rosy outlook like oh, he'll be give him a week,
he'll be fine, he'll be playing soccer again or football.
But it's guarded because he's eighty eight and double pneumonia
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is not easy for anyone.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I am not one to stand up for Gavin Newsom.
There's not much about Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That I enjoy.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
At all, really that I can think of now that
I think about it. But this whole backlash against him,
I think is maybe a little bit overkill. Gavin Newsom
is being viciously mocked for launching a podcast, and I'm
reading verbatim here. Two months after Los Angeles was turned
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to ash by wildfires, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
A couple things.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Number One, Los Angeles was not turned to ash by wildfires.
Another thing, Yes, it was very sad for the Palisade.
It's very sad for Altadina, very sad for all of
us to watch this happen and people lose their homes
and where they built their lives and everything. But all
of Los Angeles is not in ashes. Also, it has
been two months, and launching a podcast is not labor intensive.
(17:21):
It's not like Gavenusom is pouring his life into this
new podcast. It's a very simple, very easy, very low
maintenance thing to do that doesn't require a lot of time.
He can still be paying attention to what's going on
with wildfire recovery. I just think if you're going to
go after Gavenusom, there's a lot of things to go
after this, ain't it Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I want to play for you the promo that he
put out on his Twitter account yesterday pitching the podcast,
and I'll tell you what my problem is with it.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We need to change the conversation.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
And that's why I'm watching a new podcast, and this
is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast.
I'm going to be talking to people directly that I
disagree with, as well as people I look up to.
But more important than anything else, I'll be talking directly
with you the listener, real conversations. What's going on with
the cost of eggs, what are the impacts, real impacts
(18:11):
to you around tariffs? What power does an executive order
really have? And what's really going on inside of Dotsch. Look,
there's an onslaught of information that we take in, so
let's take it to the sources without the typical political
mumbo jumble. In the first few weeks, we're going to
be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and
architects in the Mega movement. This is Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
This is Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I kept waiting for the pizza boy to take off
all of his clothes with that music. Ma'am, did you
order extra anchovies? You're damn right, I did leave it
right there.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
The problem ever saw that movie?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, No, it's like a late eighties early nineties movie
where he is a piece. It's a boy who services
the board mothers of the suburban town where he dishes
his pizza.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, when I was fifteen, I didn't watch movies like
that where you were nine when you saw that movie.
Probably my problem is that he's talking about these national issues.
I don't have a problem. I generally don't have a
problem with the governor of a state doing a podcast
for the reasons that you talked about. He's got people
to produce it for him and schedule the interviews and
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do all that thing. All he's got to do is
sit down and bang out forty five minutes with whoever
he's going to be talking to. But he's talking about
issues that are very specifically national issues. When it comes
to the Department of Government efficiency or the price of eggs,
these are not things that are specific to California.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
He's been doing this for a year and a half
because he's running for president.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I know, but that's my problem. That's why I have
a problem with him doing this.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
If you wanted to do a podcast that was like, Hey,
I'm the governor of California, here's how we can make
California great again, or here's how we're going to be
able to make sure that everybody in the state of
California has healthcare, or whatever topic he wants to.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Do, as long as it's specific to California.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I'm tired of him running for president but then telling
everybody that he's not running for president.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's very rare that a governor is just going to
be focused on the state's business, right, especially a Gavin
Newsom like governor, and he hasn't spend one second being governor.
He's been running for president ever since. He's been running
for president for a very long time. I like the
idea that he's sitting down and talking to Republicans. I
like that they're opening up the podcast for the kind
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of dialogue that I'm begging.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
For to get more out of. I like that.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I guess it doesn't rub me the wrong way because
he has been running for president for a year and
a half. I got to get past the Gaven Newsom part.
But I am interested to see I mean, I'll listen
to a couple of these because I'm interested to see
how he handles a real conversation. Also, who is he
going to have, Like if he has Tom McClintock on,
for example, I'll listen to that podcast of Gavin Newsom
(21:04):
and Tom McClintock, hopefully having two very different viewpoints about
California or the country or what have you, and seeing
how that conversation goes. I think there needs to be
more of those conversations.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
What about those points that you just made I think
I totally agree with because I want to I want
to hear those conversations.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Also, it's going to depend on who he has.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
You know, are there people that he thinks are the
head of the MAGA movement or are they people who
are actually legitimately involved in the Trump administration and can
answer the questions specifically about what's going on in there.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Maybe the thing that.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I think he's going to do is not what my
fantasy is of him having staunch Republicans, conservative Republicans from
California who care about California and the country on. He
sees himself still as the resistance movement. He sees himself
as the face of the Trump resistance movement. So he's
going to, I think, try to appease all the people
(22:04):
who are looking for that Trump resistance daddy. And I
think that that's what you're going to get, more than
intelligent conversation between real players and the Republican Party. And
can we find some common ground or can you explain
the way you're thinking to me, because this is the
way I'm thinking, and maybe if we can come together
and actually speak to each other, we can find some
(22:25):
sort of understanding.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So you're going to subscribe to this podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
No, I'm not subscribing to anything with Gavin Newsom's name
on it. Please, I'll listen to clips on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That's about as far as my commitment goes.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
All right, up next, we're about a month in now,
the la Unified Annoying cell phone band that we have
championed for years now may actually be working. We are
now on the clock, apparently a few social media influencers.
We're the first to receive the Jeffrey Epstein file from
(23:00):
Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Conservative political commentators have been spotted at the White House
holding binders that that say on the top of them
the Epstein Files.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Epstein Files Phase one specifically, so those they.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Read the binders declassified. Huh.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But they don't know if it's if this is all
for show, or if the information's trickling out. Bondie said
on Fox News that the documents would include flight logs and.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
A lot of names, but we don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
If those see. I think that if they were names
we hadn't known already, she would have.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Said that, what do you mean she could if there
were surprises? Right? Yeah, And I don't know why there's
like this is a lot much ado about nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Could be, like I said, it could be that your
reference to Rachel Maddow and those tax documents that were
supposed to be so earth shattering they came out to
be a big nothing. So anyway, those videos of these
people walking out of the White House with these binders
have just been making the rounds on social media in
the last few minutes. So maybe we will see something.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Top of the Hour. We're going to get into swamp
watch and among other things.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Keir Starmer, the new British Prime Minister, is visiting President
Trump at the White House today. Tomorrow, Vladimir Lensky, the
President of Ukraine, is expected in DC to sign this
Minerals agreement where the United States gets a share of
all of the rare earth minerals that exist in or
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at least the sales of those rare earth minerals in Ukraine,
in exchange for continued military aid that has been poorn
into that country.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
LA Unified voted back in June to expand the district's
existing cell phone band to include lunch and passing periods,
so basically bell to bell right starting bell to finishing
bell policy took effact last Tuesday, and LA Unified has
reported no major disruptions in the first week. Some schools
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are still waiting on their equipment, the lockers, the pouches,
the other devices used to store phones. The district spent
seven million dollars on all of that. Half of schools,
they say, chose to rely on the honor system as
they await that requiring students to keep their phones turned
off in their backpacks. But it appears to be working
(25:27):
for when they for the schools that have the stuff
in play in terms of kids, like they mentioned at
Venice High School that kids now report to their six
period class for the first ten minutes of every day.
That's where they stow their phones and the portable medical
metal cases.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's got a.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Clear locking door and then that's where they finish their day.
So that's where they pick up their phones before they
go home.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Some students this is not a surprise, and some students
are upset by this policy. I think it's I think
the number is somewhere around ninety five of teenagers now
carrie smartphones. Fifteen year old freshman at the Sherman Oaks
Center for Enriched studies. Says that before the policy, before
he had to give his phone up in the morning,
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he would use his phone to take pictures of assignments
and when he would finish his work, and he said,
for day to day school life, it's just really really annoying.
Banning our phones just makes us more focused on our
phones and missing our phones. If they want to get
us more focused on our education, they have to make
the education more interesting to us.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
There's two parts of habit that is a real I
want to punch that kid right in the face.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, there's two parts of that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The first one is, hey, Miles, that means you're an addict.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Right, Miles, give it five days. It takes five days
to break a habit.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
That's what they say.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Five days.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
How about five days you don't have your cell phone
in class and see if your dts have worn off?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah? OK.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
There was a study that it keeps floating up in
the different headlines that I see every night getting ready
for the show, and we haven't brought it to the
table yet, but it's there's a study that asked people
to do away with their cell phones for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I mean just gone. Not that you couldn't look at email.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Obviously, you still have computer and things at home, but
you didn't have this constant thing with you on your
pocket or in your purse or on your body twenty
four to seven. And for two weeks ninety two ninety one,
ninety two percent of people said everything about their life
was better. They felt better, they were less stressed, they
weren't worried about stuff. And the best part is we
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we were afraid to give up our phones because we're
afraid we're going to miss something. Someone's trying to call
us and we don't get the message, or someone the
email is an important document and we.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Didn't get it. It does not fall it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
And that's the thing is that we have such a
hard time seeing beyond, you know, looking looking into what
would two weeks feel like if I didn't have my
phone with me. But then when you do it, gosh,
darn it, everything feels great.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You kind of sound like your kid, don't you when
you start making excuses for reasons why you need your phone. Yes, well,
somebody you may need to get a hold of me.
I may need to get a hold of you know,
my brother, or you know, my my boss may be calling.
It's like you find yourself making these excuses for your addiction.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Actually, none of that would none of that is going
to be the end of the world. Oh I have
we have MENSA members that listen to this show.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Did you know that, I would hope so this one specifically,
he was pointing out one of the characteristics that I
said that I've been told, which is that I have
good directional sense. My wife says that about me. And
this was his talk back about about that topic. Oh,
(28:43):
I'm Gary, I have a good sense of knowing where
I'm at.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I really like that guy. I really like that guy.
I really liked the guy. I'm so good at direct
I totally feel that way.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think I do that in my head several times
a show.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh Gary, I'm good at everything.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Just because you are, you're kind of infuriating a little bit,
just because you market it. Yeah, I mean, if you.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Could just screw up once in a while, it would
help the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
All Right, Well, coming up, We're not gonna do swamp.
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